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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
As with every other person who has wealth, you'd quickly find that the people who go to you with their problems are the ones whose problems would be magically solved if you only gave them a small investment of $10k, maybe $100k if they
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> There is no legitimate reason to make an illegal move in chess though? If you make an illegal move and the opponent doesn't notice it, you gain a significant advantage. LLMs just have David Sirlin's "Playing to Win"
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Ok but you're listing people/businesses, not technologies, which is what I'm talking about. Or is this nonsensical LLM slop to prove a point?
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> I'm not in the industry and I can tell he's failing to conceive many possibilities. It's also possible that because you're not in the industry, you don't understand the problem domain well enough. Tech bros l
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Saying movies are inherently a superior product to TikTok shorts is incredibly untrue. I would rather watch 90 minutes of the dumbest TikTok crap imaginable than sit through Madame Web again.
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
The real issue is that none of these alternatives (Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky) offer anything other than "we're not Twitter". Digg to Reddit was a unique case, because Digg very specifically fucked up their site, badly, with
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Waymo barely works, with 24/7 monitoring by humans in a "fleet response" center[0], in 4 cities in the world. That's only 95% done if you're counting good enough for government work. [0] https://waymo.com
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> That's a hefty assumption, especially if you're including accuracy. That's exactly what the comment is saying. People see AI do 80% of a task and assume development speed will follow a linear trend and the last 20% will
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Unfortunately your reading comprehension capability is quite low (which explains why you see LLMs as being potentially intelligent). The usage of the word "thought" in those papers does not actually indicate they believe the LLM i
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> we don’t completely understand what’s going on No, you don't completely understand what's going on. I suggest reading up on LLM architecture. It's not that complicated.
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> The controversy is on whether or not LLMs think. They do not. There is no controversy except by people with a poor understanding of the underlying technology. Whether or not LLMs think is a "debate" in the same sense that whe
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Execs and VPs going all-in on stupid shit they don't understand isn't anything new. Blockchain ring a bell? How about this quote from October 2022: "By 2026, 25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse f
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> FTFY: "Anyone who still thinks in 2024 that LLMs aren't intelligent, is a lost cause" I can understand believing this if you have a poor understanding of math, statistics, logic, and computing; which, in fairness, most p
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Article feels pointless. Anyone who still thinks in 2024 that LLMs have actual intelligence, or are anywhere close to AGI, is a lost cause. This particular sufficiently advanced technology has been around long enough now that it is no longe
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
This is a simple project. Nobody is disputing that GenAI can automate a large chunk of the initial setup work, which dominates the time spent on small projects like this. But 99.999% of professional, paid software development is not wor
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
LLMs are great for simple, common tasks, i.e. CRUD apps, RESTful web endpoints, unit tests, for which there's an enormous amount of examples and not much unique complexity. There's a lot of developers whose day mostly involves the
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
It's likely hard for them to look at what their life's work is being used for. Customer-hostile chatbots, an excuse for executives to lay off massive amounts of middle class workers, propaganda and disinformation, regurgitated SEO
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
32% of Japanese people watching anime is pretty damn mainstream. Marvel is indisputably some of the most mainstream US media in the past 20 years and yet "only" ~50% of the US population has seen a Marvel movie.[0] [0] https:&#x2
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
No, layoffs is still the wrong word. If I'm a 100 person company and I lay off 50 employees, I'm now a 50 person company. If I'm a 100 person company and I institute an RTO mandate and 50 people leave, I replace those people
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> If you know any executives, you know they own multiple homes. You can connect the dots here between a rise in real-estate prices in tech hubs and RTO directives. I don't understand how the massive rise in residential real estate p
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> - Execs truly believe that culture and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in their announcements) fwiw I talk to a lot of execs/board members and the belief here is genuine, whether or not workers agre
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Is there a large enterprise that exists in 2024 that doesn't already have existing software?
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
In the context of choosing monolith vs microservices first, it's a safe bet that we're talking about startups; in the other 98% of the market you don't have a choice because something already exists.
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> I’ve come to realize now that the demise of Python has been greatly exaggerated Has it? Because this is literally the first I've heard anyone claim (or claim that others have claimed) Python is on a downward trajectory. If anythin
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> if having the best type-checking system was critical to you, probably you wouldn't pick Python Agree, but the only situation where as a developer you can pick a language/ecosystem on its own merits, independently of anything
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> Libraries that you have to know might as well be language features. What you have to know depends on where you're working and what you're doing. You don't have to know GRPC Python libraries, unless it's a compan
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> instead of understanding Python, which is straightforward, you have to understand a bunch about Pydantic and type unions. This like saying "instead of understanding Python, you have to understand a bunch about SQLAlchemy and ORMs&
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
It's subjective, but many (most?) people who worked at Amazon agree that it's an extremely efficient and well-run business comparatively. I've worked at two other companies of similar size and they both were laughably incompe
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Trump has not been in office since January 2021; how could he have tanked that bill? Using Trump as an excuse for not passing any bills on immigration, LGBT rights, abortion, etc when he didn't hold any political position for 4 years i

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